Why DVSERVER after Compile?

[Lloyd Plantholt]

Why must you have DVSERVER running after you have
compiled the program to an .EXE?

Is there a way to make the .EXE a standalone like a
regular PB program?

Thanks in advance,
Lloyd

[Anton Lasich]

Hi

You need it because it acts as a "bridge" between your dos and windows programme. Read your docs. You can embed the server if you need to.

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[Gary Russell]

Whot is DVSERVER?

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[Lloyd Plantholt]

Originally posted by Gary Russell:
Whot is DVSERVER?

The DVSERVER is a program that runs in the background when
writing programs to include items from the PowerBasic
Developers Kit.

My real question here is "How can I make the compiled program
a standalone like any other PB Program?"

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[Lance Edmonds]

Use the DVEMBED utility to create a single-EXE... this is covered in the PBDK doc's.

JFYI, there was an update to PBDK's DVSERVER prior to is discontinuation... take a look at http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/pbdos/pbdk/

If you email me at mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A> I'll send you the latest version of DVEMBED that I have here.

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[Dave Navarro]

Lloyd,

It is not possible to compile a stand-alone *Windows* program using the DOS compiler.

You can embed DVSERVER into your executable so that it can automatically be extracted and executed, but your PBDK applications will *ALWAYS* require the DVSERVER program in order to execute.

If you want to write stand-alone Windows applications then you'll need to switch to PB/DLL.

--Dave


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